Hello All,
we welcomed, on Thursday 3rd December, our speaker for Series II of our 'Perspectives on the Art Market' talks, Adrianna Turpin, Academic Director of the MA in History and Business of Art and Collecting at the Institute d'Etudes Superieures des Arts in Paris and the Wallace Collection in London. Adrianna gave a fascinating paper on the the subject of 'Commerce and Collecting in London and Paris in the early Nineteenth Century'.
Her talk built on her chapter on William Beckford and the market for antique French furniture in the period c.1789-c.1845 published in the exhibition catalogue 'William Beckford: an eye for the magnificent', edited by Derek Ostergard (2001), which was associated with the exhibition staged at the Bard Graduate Center in New York in 2001 and Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2002 (I went along, it was fantastic!)
The talk was very well attended, with virtually all our MA students and quite a few students from the undergraduate programme, as well as PhD students and members of staff. Adrianna usefully highlighted the methodological problems of attempting to track changing prices and their meanings, as objects are put into circulation through historic art markets. This was a thoughful and thought-provoking talk and I'm sure we all thank Adrianna for coming all the way from London to speak to us.
There are more talks in the 'Perspectives on the Art Market' series in the new year...watch this space!
Mark
